Common Sense Corner

[DerVVulfman]

On the other hand, no one's abusing the snarkleaf by merely chewing it to relieve their toothache except that shady guy boiling it down into snarotine. That's what happens when some modern guy finds something they can abuse.

Still, I can't help but think of Wade Davis, a professor of anthropology and an ethnobotonist who went to Haiti during Jean-Claude (Bébé Doc) Duvalier's reign tyrannical reign to investigate the yellow zombie powder and claimed to have seen it made by a witchdoctor ( a houngan... or male priest for the vudon aware). Oh, make no mistake.... his claims of the chemical compound he believes is the active ingredient responsible for the Zombie state have been repeatedly called into question, but damn what story.

So you could think that ancient or forbidden medicine could be more passive until a modern user obtains and refines it. OR it could still be couched in mystery and still more potent (and possibly lethal if you want).